FRENCH POISON TRIAL
THREE ACCUSED CONVICTED' WOMEN RECEIVE LIFE TERMS (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. AIX EN PROVENCE, Oct. 31. Those accused in the poison trial were convicted. Sarrett was sentenced to death and the Schmidt sisters to penal servitude for life. (Katherine and Phiiomeme Schmidt, beautiful German sisters, went to France before the war and married two Frenchmen, who mysteriously disappeared . They, and Georges Sarrett, a middle-aged' Italian born lawyer of Greek parentage, who has long been domiciled in France, were charged with murder. It was alleged that with accomplices they defrauded insurance companies ■by taking policies on the lives of people who disappeared.)
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 9
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111FRENCH POISON TRIAL Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 1 November 1933, Page 9
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